leal

adj

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The verdict

“leal” is uncommon French (frequency #60,919 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,919
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de loial.

Corpus desk

Index FR-leal · leal · French

leal · rank #60,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,919
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH laxistes

Nearest frequency peer: laxistes (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « leal »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for leal
PropertyValue
Headwordleal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters4
Frequency rank#60,919
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « leal » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).lealtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « laxistes » (#60,918), « lavabos » (#60,917), « legit » (#60,921). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « leal » est au #60,919. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

leal is uncommon French at frequency #60,919 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de loial.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for leal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is leal, spelled L-E-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de loial.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how leal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si biax, si frans et si leax

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leal"?
"leal" is spelled L-E-A-L.
What does "leal" mean?
As an adjective, "leal" means: Variante de loial.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Lage#60,910koji#60,905Izzy#60,890miko#60,966

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list